Orange Brownies

Adapted from Nigella's "How to be a Domestic Goddess" cookbook. Tweaked a bit to have orangy flavour.

375g butter

375g dark chocolate

6 large eggs

1 tbsp vanilla essence

400g caster sugar

225g plain flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp orange essence

300g chopped walnuts (optional)

How to

• Preheat oven to 180C
• Melt butter and chocolate together in pan. (a)
• In a bowl, beat eggs with sugar and vanilla essence. (b)
• In another bowl, mix flour with salt. (c)
• Let chocolate mixture (a) cool a bit before adding to egg mixture (b) and then flour mix (c)
• Beat to combine smoothly and pour into tin
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Top should be dried to a paler brown, but middle still dark and dense and gooey.